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hello hello um my name is Killian thank
you for the kind introduction and I'm
going to talk about the Innovation game
um unfortunately the founder John
Fletcher couldn't make it due to
scheduling issues so I had to jump in
last minute um we are a Project based
out of Cambridge University um myself
I'm a PhD candidate in astrophysics and
Dr John Fletcher is a applied
mathematician also from Cambridge so
what is the Innovation game well our
theme or our mission is to incentivize
algorithmic Innovation well what does it
exactly mean you may ask um if you look
at the scientific literature uh you see
that um most
problems um such as the traveling
salesman problem that you might know
right um finding the shortest distance
between let's say 20 cities this kind of
problem is a hard problem to solve and
you can only solve it through like
various types of algorithms what you see
in this graph is on the
x-axis um the year on the y-axis you see
like some kind of performance metrics
when you run these algorithms so for
instance uh in the first let's say 1940s
to 1970s for let's say the traveling
salesman problem people have been just
brute forcing Solutions which is not
very efficient right so you have for
instance uh
uh a performance of one a constant right
but then people started to innovate on
the algorithm side um and what they
achieved is like a magnitudes of order
of performance boost just by having an
algorith for instance the red curve you
see uh it is two to the power 40 more
efficient to innovate on the algorithm
sign for a given problem versus uh
another algorithm like the BL the blue
ones and then the green ones as well why
do we care well you can achieve a lot of
breakthroughs just by not just by
optimizing Hardware but we by um
innovating in the algorithm space right
um and why I'm talking about that in in
the blockchain conference well our
protocol is there to incentivize this
kind of algorithmic breakthrough and how
do we do that we actually using
blockchain technology
um you may know that uh blockchain is
more about like transactions Etc
and how do we achieve that kind of like
algorithmic Breakthrough and how do we
incentivize that right uh we are
actually using the proof of work
mechanism such as um you might know from
Bitcoin and basically
having uh many algorithms together um
and then Benchmark those and find the
best ones for a given problem right so
let's say you have for the traveling
salesman problem you have four uh
different kinds of algorithm people have
been implementing and then you use the
benchmarking process which is the proof
of work mechanism where you mine for the
best algorithm right and once you found
the best algorithm you basically reward
uh the people that have been providing
the IP to our platform but also the
minor who has been uh providing Computer
Resources so on the right side you
basically see how our system works um
just as a side note of course we also
need to verify that the algorithms uh
that were submitted to platform are also
correct so that means uh is the solution
correct but also is the method correct
right um and how do we capture value for
the innovator well we can basically
um uh run uh two licenses for the
proprietary or for the open source
algorithm one the open license uh open
data license that means any algorithm
that is found through our platform uh
can be used for free if you also publish
the data why is that relevant well
imagine you have a scientific paper in
biology would you trust the paper if
you're not providing the data as well no
right it's very
unscientific um so we are following the
EOS of Open Source or Academia through
this license and the other license is
okay I don't want to publish my data but
I can use uh pay a small fee like a
license to access the
algorithm and what we are basically
doing is we are combating through the
Innovation game uh the centralization
risk uh through AI driven algorithms so
what does it mean nowadays you have
large language models and it is possible
to Now look for um solutions by using
large language models which is not very
good because that means uh suddenly your
um hard um Innovation is directly
dependent on the amount of compute you
provide which is um bad because most of
the large capital for these Computing uh
platforms are at meta Google Etc but we
are based at The Innovation game we are
the only protocol as of now that can
incentivize and combat this type of um
AI driven algorithm development by um
incentivizing and rewarding the people
that provide our IP to our platform
thank
you thank you Killian
do have any questions from the audience
for
Killian one over there you want to try I
don't think so I'm
[Laughter]
sorry okay time to work outan thanks for
that uh so on that chart of algorithm
development over time I noticed there
were quite large step functions do you
expect that algorith Al algorithmic
development is continuous enough for the
rewards to actually incentivize the
actors uh yeah so we expect that most of
the people that use our platform are
probably not innovating uh they are more
like benchmarkers or like they look at
existing algorithms and then optimize
the code a little bit so we expect that
it's very difficult to innovate but we
want to incentivize this behavior um and
the um challenges that we include in our
or let's say mathematical
computationally challenging problems
that we include our platform uh various
sorts of for Relevant for blockchain
would be for instance ZK proving
mechanism right it is uh hard to compute
a proof generally but it's easy to
verify right so this is very um very uh
relevant for let's say the blockchain
industry um if people are innovating on
our platform other areas could include
AI that we also work on um and yeah
other uh theoretical computer comput
computer science um prob as
well thank you we have time for one more
question it's over
there I have a funny one so you maybe
people don't here know but there was a
mess up and everyone got an email about
the Innovation game all the speakers so
did it uh do anything for awareness of
what of the work that you doing or did
it have no effect because I'm here
because I got that email too of the
Innovation game could you repeat the
question I couldn't so from the Defcon
committee there was a an email that was
sent out to everyone who uh ever applied
for a speaker slot and that included uh
it was a it was an incorrect email but
it it included The Innovation game so I
was just wondering did it do anything
for the awareness of what you're working
on or did it have no effect cuz I
thought it would
sorry I couldn't catch your question
could you please like close speak closer
to the mic or you can come after the
talk I'm sorry I couldn't understand it
we can come we can talk afterwards
yeah it's okay I guess we'll have
private conversation around that
question after the session uh anyone
else we still have a little bit of the
opening for a
question one over here
I'll just ask a very general question um
what would you like us to do with this
information sorry what do you want us to
do with this information now like where
do you want us to go research in or so
you can reach out to us if you have any
hard problem let's say in Defi and you
want to formulate let's say a
computational problem you can reach out
to us or if you're Hardware or like
benchmarker you can use our system to to
mine and Benchmark the these different
algorithms so there are two approaches
either you want to provide a challenge
for us um or you want to provide compute
or maybe you're a developer you want to
provide actually an algorithm so there
these
tracks amazing that's time for us thank
you again kilan uh another round of
applause for Killian